Traditional Malay Literature Research Articles

La cité royale dans la littérature traditionnelle malaise : représentation et contribution à l'histoire des cités anciennes du monde malais

Due to poverty of written sources and lack of interest shown by the archaeologists until recent years, the urban history of the Malay world before the 19th c., particularly before the 16th c., is still in an embryonic stage compared with other regions. This article try to show that, despite their shortage, local written sources such as the traditional Malay literature cannot be neglected to approach some aspects of the urban history such as the royal city. It is based on a corpus of 24 texts dated from the 15th c. onwards. The main themes regarding the royal city in the traditional Malay literature are its foundation, its morphology and structure. Descriptions are generally stereotyped and seem to refer to a kind of model located outside the Malay world. Thus, as convention takes precedence over realism, this type of source has to be taken very cautiously regarding the physical aspect of the city but stands as a valuable source regarding the symbolic aspect and the perception of the city by the autochthons.

Southeast Asian languages and literatures: a bibliographical guide to Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Thai and Vietnamese

The study of Burmese literature - a general survey, Anna Allott Burmese language study, John Okell Cambodian language and literature studies 1965-1990, D.A. Smyth Malay and Indonesian, N.G. Phillips Javanese language, literature, and theatre, Bernard Arps Indonesian literature, E. Ulrich Kratz modern Malay literature, N.G. Phillips literatures in Malay of Brunei, Singapore and East Malaysia traditional Malay literature, E. Ulrich Kratz Minangkabau language and literature, N.G. Phillips western studies of the Thai language since the 1940s - a brief survey, D.A. Smyth coming to grips with Thai literature - writings on Thai literature in western languages, Manas Chitakasem studies on Vietnamese language and literature, Dana Healy translations of South-east Asian texts.

Access to Malay manuscripts

Background Our knowledge of written traditional Malay literature depends to a great extent on the Malay manuscripts that have been copied and collected particularly in the 19th century. These manuscripts, perhaps with the exception of the oldest among them, preserved in the Cambridge and Oxford University libraries, have undergone various deliberate changes at the hands of scribes. This in no way lessens their importance. How ever, in this paper we are only concerned with the survival of manu scripts and their accessibility to researchers.

Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature. By Amin Sweeney. Berkeley: University of California (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, no. 20), 1981. 83 pp. Appendixes, References. $7 (paper). (Distributed by University Press of America.) - Malay Myths and Legends. By Jan Knappert. Exeter, N.H.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981. 294 pp. Appendix. $7.95 (paper).

Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature. By Amin Sweeney. Berkeley: University of California (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies Monograph, no. 20), 1981. 83 pp. Appendixes, References. 7.95 (paper). - Volume 43 Issue 3

Amin Sweeney: Authors and audiencces in traditional Malay literature. (Monograph Series, No. 20.) x, 83 pp. Berkeley: Center for South and South-east Asia Studies, University of California, 1980. $7.

Amin Sweeney: Authors and audiencces in traditional Malay literature. (Monograph Series, No. 20.) x, 83 pp. Berkeley: Center for South and South-east Asia Studies, University of California, 1980. $7.

Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature

Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature

The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar

This poem by a Macassar Malay describes the successful war of the Dutch against Macassar from 1666 to 1669. It was edited by Dr. C. Skinner for a London Ph.D. and published in 1963. The manuscript of the original poem is no longer available, but it is deduced that it must have been written between July 1669 and June 1670. The name of the author is recorded, an Enci' Amin; we learn from a comment in the poem itself that it was recorded on Chinese paper. It is unusual to know even this much about the original manuscripts of works in traditional Malay literature. Of the two extant manuscripts the earlier, preserved in Leiden, contains only part of the. poem. Although the name of the copyist is not given Dr. Skinner, continuing a fascinating piece of investigation by the Dutch scholar H. T. Damstè, is able to demonstrate with reasonable certainty that it was a Dutch lady, Cornelia Valentijn, wife of the famous Franςis; furthermore, that it would have been copied c. 1710 in Ambon.

Maṣlaḥah and Its Application in Indonesia Fatwā

Many experts of classical Malay literature argues that Persian influence is known very well to the traditional Malay literature. This is evident from a number of Malay literary texts are very popular, such as Saga Bakhtiar, Hikayat Amir Hamzah, Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyah and a thousand books is a known problem that some sort of adaptation or even a direct translation of Persian texts.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v3i4.793

Does Traditional Islamic Malay Literature Contain Shi‘itic Elements? ‘Ali and Fātimah in Malay Hikayat Literature

Many experts of classical Malay literature argues that Persian influence is known very well to the traditional Malay literature. This is evident from a number of Malay literary texts are very popular, such as Saga Bakhtiar, Hikayat Amir Hamzah, Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyah and The Book of the Thousand Known issues is a kind of adaptation or translation even langsungdari Persian texts. Key issue of this paper is wanted to be appointed; whether there is influence in the Persian classical Malay literature was once an indication of the influence of Shiite against Sunni Islam which evolved from the beginning of the archipelago?DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v3i4.795